Eleanor Dare PhD journal new location

Thursday, 21 April 2011

http://nicenewblog.blogspot.com/Yes nice new blog at the above address, sorry Phil - the old one had to go.Goodbye old followers - why not join me in a whole new world of post-doctoral lovelyness, new design schema, hopeful typeface, uncynical and shiny...spring cleaned, fresh and fragrant..

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Friday, 25 March 2011

Lee and I have had our paper accepted for the Istanbul ISEA 2011 in Spetember, the paper is about our VAINS collaboration. No idea how we are going to fund it...we might have to hitch-hike and sleep in ditches. But it's pleasing to get through, apparently there were thousands of applicants, so that's a bit of validation for our project.

"ISEA2011 Istanbul is the international festival of new media, electronic and digital arts. The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, is scheduled for September 14 to 21, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. The ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition will coincide with the Istanbul Biennial and will provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase contemporary new media arts. "

My viva rehersal on Monday seemed to go ok, but I've got to work on making it clearer exactly how the software works with the book and egg. No one liked my film much so I dont think I'll bother to show it, probably wont have time anyway..

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

So today we built our first Buridan's Robot prototype, now it responds to light, next we will give it conflicting desires. Below very simple Urbi code to make it communicate when light is a certain brightness:

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Basic plan for Buridan's Robot a robot that needs help to make choices//we are finally getting somewhere with Urbi in Creative Robotics

loadModule("urbi/qt-for-urbi");load("thing.u");

var thing = Thing.new;

function conv(a){

var res = ((a* 3.4/100.0) -1.7);res}|

function gui_stuff(){var window = Qt.Widget.new;//create a windowvar layout = Qt.GridLayout.new;//create the layout to display the // things in the windowwindow.setLayout(layout);//set the layout in the window !notice the comment is longer than the line ....